STAT 200 Week 5 Homework Problems

7.1.2

According to the February 2008 Federal Trade Commission report on consumer fraud and identity theft, 23% of all complaints in 2007 were for identity theft.In that year, Alaska had 321 complaints of identity theft out of 1,432 consumer complaints ("Consumer fraud and," 2008).Does this data provide enough evidence to show that Alaska had a lower proportion of identity theft than 23%?State the random variable, population parameter, and hypotheses.

7.2.4

According to the February 2008 Federal Trade Commission report on consumer fraud and identity theft, 23% of all complaints in 2007 were for identity theft.In that year, Alaska had 321 complaints of identity theft out of 1,432 consumer complaints ("Consumer fraud and," 2008).Does this data provide enough evidence to show that Alaska had a lower proportion of identity theft than 23%?Test at the 5% level.

7.2.6

In 2008, there were 507 children in Arizona out of 32,601 who were diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) ("Autism and developmental," 2008).Nationally 1 in 88 children are diagnosed with ASD ("CDC features -," 2013).Is there sufficient data to show that the incident of ASD is more in Arizona than nationally?Test at the 1% level.

7.3.6

The economic dynamism, which is the index of productive growth in dollars for countries that are designated by the World Bank as middle-income are in table #7.3.8 ("SOCR data 2008," 2013).Countries that are considered high-income have a mean economic dynamism of 60.29.Do the data show that the mean economic dynamism of middle-income countries is less than the mean for high-income countries?Test at the 5% level.

Table #7.3.8: Economic Dynamism of Middle Income Countries

25.8057

37.4511

51.915

43.6952

47.8506

43.7178

58.0767

41.1648

38.0793

37.7251

39.6553

42.0265

48.6159

43.8555

49.1361

61.9281

41.9543

44.9346

46.0521

48.3652

43.6252

50.9866

59.1724

39.6282

33.6074

21.6643

7.3.8

Maintaining your balance may get harder as you grow older.A study was conducted to see how steady the elderly is on their feet.They had the subjects stand on a force platform and have them react to a noise.The force platform then measured how much they swayed forward and backward, and the data is in table #7.3.10 ("Maintaining balance while," 2013).Do the data show that the elderly sway more than the mean forward sway of younger people, which is 18.125 mm?Test at the 5% level.

Table #7.3.10: Forward/backward Sway (in mm) of Elderly Subjects

19

30

20

19

29

25

21

24

50

8.1.8

In 2013, Gallup conducted a poll and found a 95% confidence interval of the proportion of Americans who believe it is the government's responsibility for health care.Give the statistical interpretation.